Theo Pozzy On Creating The Ratings System & Holding The First Sectioned Event In Portland
Theo Pozzi shares his journey of discovering disc golf in Portland, which began in 1997 when he moved to the city from Dartmouth College. As a co-founder of the college's ultimate frisbee team, Pozzi was initially introduced to the sport, but it wasn't until he discovered local courses with real baskets that he became hooked. He goes on to explain how he played a key role in sanctioning the first Portland PDGA-sanctioned tournament, the Mackyver Open at Milo Mciver, which took place in 2001. Pozzi also discusses the growth of disc golf in Oregon, including the development of the OREGON SERIES and the BEAVER STATE FLING. He joins Todd Andrews, another former PDGA board member, to bring more disc golf events to the region. With Pozzi's involvement in the sport, he played a crucial role in shaping the landscape of Portland's disc golf scene, paving the way for future generations of players and tournament organizers.
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and rounding out our 2022 portland open press conference we have the luxury of speaking with teo pozzi welcome to the press conference tale thank you and i think i'm going to start off with when did you find disc golf i found disc golf when i moved out to portland in 1997. at dartmouth college i was one of the co-founders of the ultimate frisbee team my freshman year of college and played a little bit of ultimate and then stopped playing just you know played catch for many years came out here and never played disc golf on a basket i'm like wow there's real courses with real baskets and went out and started playing and just got thoroughly hooked on it and one thing led to another and one of the first things right here locally to portland is that you actually sanctioned the first portland pdga sanctioned tournament tell us what that was and where sure so the kind of the back story is in the northwest there was sort of this you know idea that the pga was a little snooty and snobby and you know we don't need to sanction our tournament so very few tournaments were sanctioned in the northwest and i wanted to see us you know start stepping it up and so i got together with todd andrews another former pdga board member and we created the mackyver open at milo mciver and this was back when it was a kind of simple 18-hole layout and that was in 2001 and that led into a number of things including the oregon series starting up a year later and for those viewers that are local to oregon we've heard of the olay we've heard of the oregon series but everyone out there knows what the beaver state fling is where did that start for you and how do you feel about what it's grown into today well the second part of that's easy i'm amazed and super happy but um essentially it started out as a sea tier and there were a couple people that ran it and i might have been at dabney state park at that point rather than machiver and then i joined the board of the pga board in 2002 and so sort of in parallel with all the stuff i was doing there as a volunteer the...
